Dan Wetzel of Yahoo! Sports writes that Tim Tebow landed in the
perfect spot after signing with the New England Patriots. Tebow’s
never sought the limelight and coach Bill Belichick is the right
guy to keep the media hounds away from the oft-criticized
quarterback. Belichick, during a press conference on Tuesday,
reiterated over and over that the Pats
“will do what’s best for the team,” when it comes to Tebow.

There’s a lot of golfers to root for this week at the U.S. Open.
Mike
Tanner from the relatively new Sports On Earth blog, which
features some of the best writers on the planet, mentions a lot of
them, including Jordan Spieth, who won the U.S. Junior Amateur at
Gold Mountain a couple summers ago.

U.S. Soccer has come a long way since 1976.
Joel Petterson of the Seattle Times chronicles just how far in
this well-done piece, writing about the state of U.S. men’s soccer
the last time the team played in Seattle. The year was 1976, the
opponent was Canada and the U.S. coach was Walt Chyzowych. I
remember covering the Sounders’ game vs. the New York Cosmos and
Pele earlier that year. It was the first event played in the
Kingdome.

In case you missed it, here’s the complete list of the
Mariners’ 40 picks in the recent amateur baseball draft. And
here’s a list of the
34 players with Washington state ties selected in the draft.
Lower Columbia’s Easton Napiontek, a freshman pitcher from Port
Angeles, was selected in the 34th round by the Texas Rangers. The
6-foot-8 Napiontek played a lot of shortstop at PA, but was turned
into a hard-throwing, full-time closer at LCC. He’s already signed
with the Rangers.